TITLE 23
Health and Safety

CHAPTER 23-18.6.1
Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

SECTION 23-18.6.1-2

(1) "Adult" means an individual who is at least eighteen (18)
years of age.

(2) "Agent" means an individual:

(i) Authorized to make health care decisions on the
principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care; or

(ii) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the
principal's behalf by any other record signed by the principal.

(3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or part of a
human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of
transplantation, therapy, research, or education.

(4) "Decedent" means a deceased individual whose body or part
is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this chapter, a
fetus.

(5) "Disinterested witness" means a witness other than the
spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian of the
individual who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift,
or another adult who exhibited special care and concern for the individual. The
term does not include a person to which an anatomical gift could pass under
§ 23-18.6.1-11.

(6) "Document of gift" means inclusion in a donor registry, a
donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. The term includes a
statement or symbol on a driver's license or identification card.

(7) "Donor" means an individual whose body or part is the
subject of an anatomical gift.

(8) "Donor registry" means the Rhode Island Donor Registry
established under § 31-10-26.1 as well as any other electronic database
that identifies donors and complies with § 23-18.6.1-20.

(9) "Driver's license" means a motor vehicle or chauffeurs
license or permit issued by the department of motor vehicles, whether or not
conditions are attached to the license or permit.

(10) "Eye bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited,
or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening,
testing, processing, storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of
human eyes.

(11) "Guardian" means a person appointed by a court to make
decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, or welfare of an
individual. The term does not include a guardian ad litem.

(12) "Hospital" means a facility licensed as a hospital under
the law of any state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United States,
a state, or a subdivision of a state.

(22) "Prospective donor" means an individual who is dead or
near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part
that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or
education. The term does not include an individual who has made a refusal that
is known by the procurement organization.

(23) "Reasonably available" means able to be contacted by a
procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a
timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the
making of an anatomical gift.

(24) "Recipient" means an individual into whose body a
decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted.

(25) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a
tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is
retrievable in perceivable form.

(26) "Refusal" means a record created under §
23-18.6.1-7 that expressly states an intent to bar other persons from making an
anatomical gift of an individual's body or part.

(27) "Sign" means, with the present intent to authenticate or
adopt a record:

(i) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

(ii) To attach to or logically associate with the record an
electronic symbol, sound, or process.

(28) "State" means a state of the United States, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or
insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

(29) "Technician" means an individual determined to be
qualified to remove or process parts by an appropriate organization that is
licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law. The term
includes an enucleator.

(30) "Tissue" means a portion of the human body other than an
organ or an eye. The term does not include blood unless the blood is donated
for the purpose of research or education.

(31) "Tissue bank" means a person that is licensed,
accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery,
screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue.

(32) "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that furnishes
organ transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services required
for the care of transplant patients.